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Thanks for this link! :) (incomplete, but useful)

Blazing Saddles (Morris)

Chinatown (Goldsmith)

La Cloche Thibétaine (Delerue)

Conrack (Williams-- love it, pity we have so little of it)

Earthquake (Williams)

The Four Musketeers (Schifrin)

Gold (Bernstein-- don't kow yet if it's great, but it's just been released!)

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (Rózsa)

High Velocity (great or not, I'm not going to leave out a Goldsmith)

QB VII (Goldsmith)

McQ (great or not, I like it)

The Sting (Marvin Hamlisch, Scott Joplin-- a masterpiece of a movie)

The Super Cops (Fielding-- not one of the greatest scores ever, but very cool)

The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three (Shire)

The Towering Inferno (Wililams)

Winter Kill (not exactly one of the greatest, but the main title definitely is great)

Yes, I do have all of these. :o

(plus Schifrin's score for the Planet of the Apes TV series, which I almost included)

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The one and only Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The River

Not just Williams:

Ghostbusters

The Terminator, Nightmare on Elm Street (yes, I used to like synthesized scores)

Children of the Corn

Hum... not a good year for film scores, huh?

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I've never heard Dracula. Any good?

Yes. It's a very good score but has never had a really satisfactory release. The only CD release was a 1990 Varese reissue of the old LP, a very short album that left off a lot of music and has poor sound quality. Other than the obvious this is my #1 choice for an expanded Williams release.

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Ah, so you're not referring to Kilar's score. I've only heard Williams' score from the track on the 40 Years release and it was decent, but there's something so isolated and strangely beautiful about Kilar's one. Although I admit I found it when the tracks "The Beginning" and (the absolutely heavenly "Ascension" were used in Top Gear.

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Predator, An American Tail, Aliens, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Pirates! Am I supposed to be impressed???

1985 and 1987 were both better by far! :(

The first 4 are very good scores.

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Predator, An American Tail, Aliens, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Pirates! Am I supposed to be impressed???

1985 and 1987 were both better by far! :(

The first 4 are very good scores.
So far neither has fully impressed me. They're pretty good, but they're no classics in my book.

1985: Back to the Future, Flesh & Blood, Silverado, Young Sherlock Holmes, King Solomon's Mines, Rambo: First Blood Part II

1987: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Robocop, Lionheart

^ I prefer all those scores. And 1985 is particularly good!

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Yes, I forgot Alien and Dracula for me. Goldsmith was on fire that year.

He was. And you also forgot Train Robbery.

Predator, An American Tail, Aliens, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Pirates! Am I supposed to be impressed???

1985 and 1987 were both better by far! :(

The first 4 are very good scores.

So is the 5th.

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Can't complain.

Indeed!

Also:

The River

Gremlins

The Natural

Supergirl

And of course, though it's not a score, "Olympic Fanfare and Theme."

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Gosh! Are there any other oldsters around here in my age group? Born 1962. Yeah, call me Gramps. Don't I get a gold watch or something?

Yes. Me.

What a bunch of babies.

1962: Lawrence of Arabia

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Can't complain.

Indeed!

Also:

The River

Gremlins

The Natural

Supergirl

And of course, though it's not a score, "Olympic Fanfare and Theme."

Haven't thought about the Olympic Fanfare... great one! How could I forget??? :blink:

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Yeah.

But you're, like, a hundred years old, man!

and still have more sex than most here. :lol:

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I love Exodus Mark, used to love playing it on the piano

I believe Tadlow records, which did the recent 3 disc El Cid recording, plans on doing a complete recording for Exodus this year or in 2010.

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Alien

STTMP

The Great Train Robbery

And to a lesser extent, Williams' Dracula.

What d'ya mean "to a lesser extent"?! "Dracula" is a surperb score, overlooked by the academy that year, as was "1941".

What a bunch of babies.

1962: Lawrence of Arabia

At last, I've found somone born the same year as me, and what a fabulous score "Lawerence..." is!

I've never heard Dracula. Any good?

YES, YES, YES !!!!!!!!!!!!

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Alien

STTMP

The Great Train Robbery

And to a lesser extent, Williams' Dracula.

What d'ya mean "to a lesser extent"?! "Dracula" is a surperb score, overlooked by the academy that year, as was "1941".

"To a lesser extent" means it's very good, but not of one the all-time greatest Williams scores, and not one of my special favourites - unlike the three Goldsmith scores I listed.

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Well if someone wants to send it to me I'll be happy to check it out :)

I can upload it for ya, but don't you only listen to loseless?

No not at all, in fact only a very tiny portion of the music on my hard drive is in lossless

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Jane Eyre

M*A*S*H

Tora! Tora! Tora!

And, yes, I have the gray hairs that go with my age. Considering how many movies listed I remember seeing in the theater, or played at the movie theater that I worked at in high school and college, yeah, I'm feeling my age. But it is nice to know that there are several here who can call me "kid."

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I was born in the year of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

What, 1936?!

Alien

STTMP

The Great Train Robbery

And to a lesser extent, Williams' Dracula.

What d'ya mean "to a lesser extent"?! "Dracula" is a surperb score, overlooked by the academy that year, as was "1941".

"To a lesser extent" means it's very good, but not of one the all-time greatest Williams scores, and not one of my special favourites - unlike the three Goldsmith scores I listed.

A fair comment.

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